Source: naij.com - The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) estimated that Ghana has overtaken Nigeria in yam exportation as the quality of the produce from Nigeria has dropped due to high dependency on traditional planting system.

Nobert Maroya from Yam Improvement for Income and Food Security in West Africa announced this fact in Ibadan during a meeting of the organization’s experts with Nigerian seed production companies.

Source: GNA - The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI) has assured Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) of government commitment to create the right platform to bolster their growth and support the national economy.

The Ministry said government has put in place several strategies in a bid to push vigorously its agenda of getting people to accept to grow and consume locally made products.

Source: Kofi Owusu Aduonum/Daily Guide - Founder of Ghanaian-owned beverage company Kasapreko Company Limited (KCL), Dr Kwabena Adjei has been adjudged West African Tourism Personality of the Year at the recently-organised Weizo Accra tourism conference held in Accra.

Source: GNA - Afrocentric Bamboo Bikes Limited, producers of bamboo bike frames for the international market, has through the assistance of the Skilled Development Funds (SDF), held a five-day skills development training for its staff.

USA - After 22 years of raising chickens for Perdue, one brave factory farmer Craig Watts was at his breaking point and... Watch the video!

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Interestingly, what Ghanaians abroad know since a long time, that Ghana grown poultry is just better and healthier, most Ghanaians at home don`t value!

Due all time brain washing by BBC or Deutsche Welle (DW), and other news-media and western films, Ghanaians are under the impression, that western life-style, culture and food must be good!What they don`t realise, is that poultry in western countries is largely grown with

Source: EFG - Nominations for the “Made in Ghana Hall of Fame Awards” have opened in Accra. As part of the fifth anniversary celebration of Entrepreneurs Foundation of Ghana (EFG), twenty five most outstanding products and services in Ghana will be inducted into the highest award presented by the organization.

Source: GNA - The Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts has set up four craft centres in the Ashanti Region to save the creative arts industry, which stakeholders say may die soon if not resourced.

The move follows recent calls of the craft industry players who expressed worry about the downward trend of the otherwise booming business, as the result of the

Ghana is to face a ban from exporting commodities like groundnuts, peanuts butter and cereal products to the European market if it is unable to reduce the level of aflatoxin contamination in such commodities.

Aflatoxin is a toxin produced by a fungus growing on crops which cause liver disease...

Source: Daily Graphic Ghana - The Executive Director of the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI), Mr Lukman Abdul-Rahim, has asked Ghanaian entrepreneurs to invest heavily to improve the quality of their products to enable them access the global market.